Firepower already on track for 1 million ppv buys!...

this is gonna be first ppv i ever paid for Smart choice buddy! :fing02:

146 cotto @ fightime!! :nono: wrong buddy.. .. while i dont expect cotto to blown up 15 pounds.. he will def.. be around 10 lbs heavier than 145

this is gonna be first ppv i ever paid for

So this fight is doing at least 1 million. Good.

I'm ordering

Pacquiao, Cotto take the bad out of boxing LAS VEGAS – It was a news conference, which only means not a whole lot happened. Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto talked Wednesday like diplomats after accepting keys to the city from the only politician with a title, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman. If Goodman’s gift included any keys to what might happen Saturday night at the MGM Grand in the most anticipated fight of the year, nobody was saying. Pacquiao said thanks. Cotto said thanks. But their plans might as well have been state secrets, closely guarded by both and one as important to the Philippines as the other is to Puerto Rico. Their good manners and polite tone are unusual for boxing, which has busted as many ear drums as it has noses over the noisy years. Then again, Pacquiao-Cotto is an unusual bout between fighters likable for lots of reasons, the biggest of which might be the significant absence of redundant trash talk. It qualifies as a big fight, perhaps one of the biggest in years, without anybody assigned to trite roles. There are no bad guys here. Even Las Vegas resident Floyd Mayweather, Jr., who might meet the winner, hasn’t asked for a ringside seat, promoter Bob Arum said Wednesday. Without any of the familiar noise, there is a sense that the fighters are conserving their energies and bad intentions for the opening bell. Too many fights over too many years have fallen flat after shout-downs that always promised a beat down, but rarely delivered. Pacquiao-Cotto is loaded with the promise without any of the talk. “I don’t know what will happen, but I will do my best,’’ said Pacquiao, who is favored to win the 145-pound bout. The closest thing to braggadocio came from Cotto’s 32-year-old trainer Joe Santiago. “”It will be a great victory for Puerto Rico,’’ said Santiago, who is only three years older than Cotto. “Good luck to Manny Pacquiao. You’re going to need it.’’ There’s a theory that Cotto looms as Pacquiao’s biggest roadblock in his ascent to international stardom. Cotto’s has been at welterweight longer than Pacquiao, who started his pro career as 106- pound 16-year-old. Cotto is comfortable at the weight. Translation: Cotto’s has power that Pacquiao has yet to feel. The counter is that Cotto has never seen Pacquiao’s kind of speed and will see it only after it comes, goes and leaves him looking up at the Filipino with his back on the canvas. It adds up to a mix of possibilities that talk for themselves. If that’s not enough, there is a world of media already talking about the fight, mostly because of Pacquiao. In introducing Cotto, Arum said: “Psychologically –he knows it and I know it – he is not the star of the show.’’ Pacquiao’s stardom was portrayed at the news conference by a photo of him on a poster-sized cover of the Asian edition of Time. The international edition of the magazine has a reported circulation of about 1 million. An additional 50,000 copies were printed because of Pacquiao, according to a spokesman. Those are just some of the numbers that seem to add up to a pay-per-view bonanza, one million or more customers. “We now are on track to exceed one million,’’ said Home Box Office senior vice-president Mark Taffett, who said the mid-week sales made the fight “as hot as a pistol.’’ If Pacquiao-Cotto meets the 1-million milestone, it will be the second fight this year to hit the mark. Mayweather’s decision over Juan Manuel Marquez in September had one million customers. The last time there were two pay-per-view fights that surpassed one million apiece was 1999 with 1.4 for Felix Trinidad’s upset of Oscar De La Hoya and 1.2 for the Evander Holyfield-Lennox Lewis draw. Without Pacquiao, the prospects probably wouldn’t be so bullish. He has been showing up everywhere these days, including a rehearsal Tuesday for a concert at nearby Mandalay Bay. Pacquiao, the lead singer for the band MP, is scheduled to be on stage sometime after his date with Cotto. Pacquiao doesn’t plan on singing the blues. NOTES, QUOTES · Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach played it politically-correct Wednesday. But that might not last until opening bell. For at least a couple of weeks, Roach talked a lot, including a prediction that Pacquiao would win a first-round knockout. Roach placed a $1,000 best at 40-1 on that proposition. Are more head games on the agenda? “A little bit,’’ Roach said. “I’m not done.’’ · Arum said Roach and Pacquiao is the greatest trainer-fighter alliance since Angelo Dundee and Muhammad Ali. · Roach expects Pacquiao to be at about 149 pounds at opening bell. He said that the Filipino arrives at the gym for workout at 148 and leaves at 144. Roach expects Cotto to beat about 146 pounds at fight time. http://www.15rounds.com/pacquiao-cotto-take-the-bad-out-of-boxing-111109/ I hope that was a typo. it doesn't make sense even if he meant it on the scales. Even more so at fight night, gaining so few would be like DLH on his last fight.

PPV is 54.99 here where i live :neutral:. I'm not happy about that at all. Still gonna buy the PPV though.

apparently...:haha:.No more floyd well researched data? :ugh1:

Roach expects Cotto to beat about 146 pounds at fight time.This is the thing I don't understand.. Why Roach demands that when Cotto already gave them 145 at weigh-in?

Al Haymon Banned :haha:.

what do you mean, "he's gone"? somebody banned his ass? apparently...:haha:.

Al Haymon Will love this thread... but.. he's gone.. bummer..what do you mean, "he's gone"? somebody banned his ass?

PPV is 54.99 here where i live :neutral:.

Doesn't matter the fight, you want this many people watching boxing.

Al Haymon Will love this thread... but.. he's gone.. bummer..

Alot of buzz for this fight.. I was at a bar today, not a sports bar, but a bar that's known for just its microbrews. Me and friends were talkin about the fight, and the bartender tells us theyre showing it there for $20 a piece. Theyve never shown a fight before, boxing or UFC. But the owner said everyone is talking about it so he's going to test it out. I dont think the place will be crowded, as alot people already have plans. And a $20 cover for a bar in downtown is pretty steep. The most I paid was $10 in LA, but the place was huge. This place is more of a pub/resturant. Talking to the bartender, he said none of them are into boxing and havent seen a Manny or floyd fight before, but theyre excited about this one.

This fight should do more than JMM vs Floyd.. That wont change the fact Floyd is still the cash cow and is gonna want more than 50/50

Pacquiao won't accept 50/50 with Floyd because Pac has to give Arum 27% of his purse. So in reality, if Pac accepted 50/50 with Floyd, Pacquiao would be getting a MUCH smaller purse split than Mayweather. This is why Pacquiao was such a cunt and made Arum pay the extra 2% (if I remember correctly) to make it 50/52 in favor of Pacquiao vs Hatton. He was just making Arum get less of his purse, in other ways. Having said that, the fight against Mayweather doesn't happen because Pacquiao/Roach/Arum will price themselves out. i think you want to say mayweather will price himself out.

Guyz plz, don't even think about Floyd going 50/50 with anybody. From now on every fight is hi risk for Floyd. Even if Pac/Cotto sells more PPV than his fight he got the excuse of two class b boxers fighting each other barely sold more PPV than him fighting bums.... Be ready for this..

Yeah I read somewhere on here though, if Pac does more ppv than Floyd...Pac will not grant the 50/50 He will want a bigger cut, because he has a bigger cut taken out of his purse by Arum and company, I guess. This negotiation process is a headache I would think 50/50 with an extra 10% to the winner would be sufficient..but noooo...